stereom
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[edit]Noun
[edit]stereom (uncountable)
- A calcium carbonate material which makes up the internal skeletons of echinoderms.
- 1997 October, R[onald] L. Parsley, “The echinoderm classes Stylophora and Homoiostelea: non Calcichordata”, in The Paleontological Society Papers, volume 3, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, , →ISSN, →OCLC, page 230:
- Two genera, Lagynocystis and Iaekelocarpus possess ctenoid organs. These thin folded sheets of stereom are of unknown function.